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UTEP vs NMSU

Ad Val Kilmer said in Real Genius, “I’m only saying this because I care. There are a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.”
Wow! Someone who can recite a line from Real Genius is my kind of people. A completely under rated movie!
 
What do you have to go on but past performances? This is a repeated failure of UTEP teams year after year. Yes, you are rah rah and can't accept that UTEP needs changes. How many 30 pt losses does it take you to realize that? What about the Perennial Power UTAH VALLEY? NMSU is not exactly giant killers. You act like their wins against poor competition are extreme feats.

We are in a bottom feeder conference and we never come close to winning it. Do you really want to take this exact blue print into the Mountain West so we can get decimated. Wake up.
Go Miners beat Liberty!!
 
This Miner team can be pretty good. This Miner team can be pretty bad. A 29 point loss to UVU and a 28 point loss to NMSU are puzzling azz whippings.

Those two losses are more indicative of the tendency to submit and just roll over than a talent issue. I’m absolutely certain the Aggs are not 28 points better than the Miners. I am absolutely positive UVU is not 29 points better than UTEP.

I hope the Miners get that figured out. Why the quit in the middle of the game? It was so apparent to me against the Aggies that the Miners quit playing. And not that far into the game. Why?!? You lose by 6-8 on your home court in front of a sellout crowd against your longest standing rival and you can get away saying, “It just wasn’t our day”, but not 28.

I think it’s a sign of a deeper problem, and I think that it has to be figured in order for this team to make it all the way through a conference tournament. It’s one thing to put a game or two together, and a whole other thing to put 3 or 4 together with an increasing degree of difficulty as the tourney goes on.

With that said, I am pleasantly surprised with the outcome of this latest road trip. Nothing more can be asked than to come away 2-0 from a trip out east.
 
It’s be nice if Utep wins the regular season, but all that really does is most likely mean we’d get an NIT bid if our BPI is in the top 125. The Miners need to just stay hungry and avoid the let downs like last week against the aggies. I’d be fine with a top 3 finish and playing well going into the conference tournament. NCAA or win the whole NIT!! Those are the only two things I’d be content with to merit keeping Golding!
 
It’s be nice if Utep wins the regular season, but all that really does is most likely mean we’d get an NIT bid if our BPI is in the top 125. The Miners need to just stay hungry and avoid the let downs like last week against the aggies. I’d be fine with a top 3 finish and playing well going into the conference tournament. NCAA or win the whole NIT!! Those are the only two things I’d be content with to merit keeping Golding!
I would ordinarily agree with you on that, however, at the moment as a 3 seed, we’d be playing friggin Liberty. I don’t think it’ll stay that way, however it just points to how among the top 6 seeds, anyone can beat anyone. Throw in WKU as the current 7th seed, and it goes even deeper.

Honestly, I think 2nd seed sets them selves up for the best possible scenario. Get the 8 or 9 seed for an “easy-ish” quarterfinal, come into the semi fairly fresh.

Obviously, that’s best case scenario, imo.
 
It’s be nice if Utep wins the regular season, but all that really does is most likely mean we’d get an NIT bid if our BPI is in the top 125. The Miners need to just stay hungry and avoid the let downs like last week against the aggies. I’d be fine with a top 3 finish and playing well going into the conference tournament. NCAA or win the whole NIT!! Those are the only two things I’d be content with to merit keeping Golding!
The NIT won’t have Big 12, Big East, or Big Ten teams. Only ACC and SEC teams. It’s watered down trash. Being selected for the NIT is nothing to be proud of. NCAA or bust.
 
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